Islamic State steps up anti-US propaganda with calls to attack Times Square
Online propaganda videos and messages posted by Isil supporters encourage "lone wolf" attacks against numerous US tourist destinations and details how to make homemade pipe bombs
The Isil post encourages would-be attackers to target Times Square in New York Photo: Alamy
By Oliver Duggan
11:57AM BST 17 Sep 2014
The Islamic State (Isil) has encouraged “lone wolf” attacks by extremists equipped with homemade pipe bombs on Times Square and other high-profile US tourist destinations, according to reports.
A message posted on an Isil forum entitled “To the Lone Wolves in America: How to Make a Bomb in Your Kitchen, to Create Scenes of Horror in Tourist Spots and Other Targets” surfaced in the last 24 hours.
In it, supporters of the extremist organisation are told to plant explosives in busy public locations in New York, Las Vegas and Texas, and at metro stations across the US. It comes as Isil released a slickly-produced propaganda video in response to President Barack Obama's pledge to "degrade and destroy" the organisation.
The video includes shaky-footage of the White House that appears to have been filmed from a moving car, and include extracts of President Obama's statement on the US response to Isil this week.
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Released by the Islamic State's propaganda wing, al-Hayat Media Centre, the 52-second clip is similar to previous Isil videos in its high-production values and threats to attack various US targets.
But, according to NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, “this is the first time Isil has used this medium to inspire a “lone wolf” type attack".
“We are quite concerned, as you would expect, with the capabilities of Isil, much more so than al-Qaeda, to use social media to try and spread their recruitment efforts and try to inspire,” he said.
““We have been focused on it and I believe we are as prepared as any entity can be to deal with the threats. But the reality is that we are living in a new era of potential terrorism. That is the reality.”
The post, which was uploaded three weeks ago but has attracted renewed attention since the murder of British aid worker David Haines by Isil last week, includes recipes for homemade bombs.
It is believed to be a recreation of an early bomb-making manual distributed in English by al-Qaeda in 2010, and used to create the explosives used in the Boston marathon attacks in April 2013.
The worrying findings come after a New York man was charged with trying to help the Islamic State by attempting to murder US soldiers.
A federal grand jury in Rochester handed down a seven-count indictment against Mufid Elfgeeh, 30, following an investigation by the FBI's Rochester Joint Terrorism Task Force, a Justice Department statement said.
According to court records, Elfgeeh tried to help three people - two of whom were cooperating with the FBI - to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic State, a Sunni militant group that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria.
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